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'''Geek Picnic''' is the largest [[Europe]]an open air festival dedicated to popular science, modern technology, science and art.<ref name=village2013 /><ref name=metro2013 />


The first festival was held in [[St. Petersburg]] in 2011. Since 2014, Geek Picnic has been held in [[Moscow]] and St. Petersburg. In 2016, the first Geek Picnic was held in [[Israel]].<ref name=israel2016 />
[[File:92cBtp8H7Uk.jpg|left|thumb|geek picnic 2014]]


== Festivals ==
[[File:Квадракоптеры 2.jpg|Quadcopters show, 2013|250px|thumb]]
[[File:Сергей и Александр Волковы.jpg|Russian cosmonauts [[Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov|Sergey Volkov]] and [[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov|Aleksandr Volkov]] speaking at a festival event, 2013|250px|thumb]]


=== 2011 ===
The first Geek Picnic took place, at the [[New Holland Island]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], on August 6, 2011. It presented several scientific shows, including [[3D printing]] and robotics, as well as indoor and outdoor activities like modern game consoles, monocycles, [[Powerbocking|jumping stilts]], gaming zone and sports ground.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://habrahabr.ru/company/itmozg/blog/125896/|title=6 августа в СПб прошел первый Geek Picnic|author=|date=2011-08-09|publisher= ITmozg.ru|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> The festival attracted more than 1500 visitors.


=== 2012 ===
'''Geek Picnic''' — is annual science and technology open-air festival in St. Petersburg.
The second Geek Picnic was held at the same location on August, 3rd. It featured a wide variety of events including robot exhibition, a number of lectures in the format of [[TEDx]] and masterclasses by recognized experts from Russian IT companies (Gaidar Magdanurov, Grachik Adzhamian, Alexey Voinov, Filipp Katz, Kirill Shichanov and Yury Lifshits), a job fair for programmers and a dedicated Windarium Windows education site. The recreational zone offered open library, gaming space, sports and a picnic. Around 7000 people have visited the event.<ref name=ria2013 />
== Ideological component ==
[[Image:Масштаб.jpg|thumb|right|upright]]


=== 2013 ===
[[Image:Форматт.jpg|thumb|right|upright]]
In 2013, Geek Picnic was a two-day festival held at [[Yelagin Island]]. The territory was divided into 4 zones dedicated to technology, science, art and picnic. The festival featured a display of most recent inventions in robotics and 3d printing, interactive science museum, meteorite exhibition<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/spb/20130804/954157696.html|title=Первый день Geek Picnic: ярмарка полезных безумств|author=|date=2013-08-04|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> and [[Fab lab]].<ref name=metro2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.metronews.ru/novosti/v-peterburge-roboty-tancevali-brejk-dans/Tpomhd---8VzRYV3CL8mVI/|title=В Петербурге роботы танцевали брэйк-данс|author=Anna Gamzikova|date=2013-08-04|publisher=Metro News|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> Event schedule included lectures by cosmonaut Alexander Volkov, historian [[:ru:Лев Лурье|Lev Lurie]], a known polyglot, language teacher and television presenter [[:ru:Петров, Дмитрий Юрьевич|Dmitry Petrov]], engineer [[Anatoly Wasserman]], and Nigel Ackland, known to be the world’s first person to receive a bionic prosthetic arm, and numerous entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.<ref name=village2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-village.ru/village/weekend/gallery/129899-geeks|title=Люди в городе: Герои и посетители Geek Picnic|author=Danya Tristan|date=2013-08-05|publisher=The Village|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> The Russian quadcopter racing championship took place during the festival. Recreational areas included food court, playground and open-air exhibitions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://habrahabr.ru/post/187158/|title=Открытый чемпионат России по квадрокоптерам|author=|date=2013-07-19|publisher=|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spbdnevnik.ru/news/2013-08-04/na--gik-piknike--posmotreli-na-tantsuyushchikh-robotov-i-sygrali-na-virtualnykh-strunakh/#ad-image-0|title=На "Гик Пикнике" посмотрели на танцующих роботов и сыграли на виртуальных струнах|author=|date=2013-08-04|publisher=Газета "Петербургский дневник"|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sobaka.ru/city/city/17626|title=Самые интересные события Geek Picnic|author=Nikolay Ovchinnikov|date=2013-07-29|publisher=Sobaka.Ru Magazine|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mr7.ru/articles/88922/|title=В Петербурге проходит "Гик Пикник" с танцующими роботами и квадрокоптерами|author=|date=2013-08-04|publisher=MR.ru|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> Visitor count exceeded 15000 through 2 days.<ref name=ria2013>{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/science/20130715/949850504.html|title=Фестиваль науки Geek picnic в Петербурге посетят около 15 тыс человек|author=|date=2013-07-15|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref>


=== 2014 ===
* Mission
[[File:Geek Picnic (Moscow; 2014-01-26) 28.JPG|A girl testing [[Oculus Rift]] headset at Geek Picnic in Moscow, 2014|left|200px|thumb]]
The mission is to plunge the world into the atmosphere of a modern and lively science, advanced technology and design.
The winter session of 2014 Geek Picnic took place in [[VDNKh (Russia)|VDNKh]], [[Moscow]], on January 25–26. Theme zones dedicated to technology, science and art, entertainment, lectorium and a playground for children were set up in a 15 thousand square meters pavilion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lenta.ru/video/2014/01/26/geekpicnic/|title=У меня корова фишку украла!|date=2014-01-26|publisher=[[Lenta.ru]]|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> A number of speakers including Anatoly Wasserman and futurologist Dmitry Gluchovskiy gave lectures, and the founder of the Venus project [[Jacque Fresco]] held a skype conference call. The festival featured musical performance by [[Alexander Robotnick]] and the [[Desert Planet]] band. The displays included the world’s biggest [[Tesla coil]], 3D bioprinter prototype, quadcopter show, sculptures of Transformers characters and a robot show featuring Exoatlet hauler and InMoove android.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poisknews.ru/theme/publications/9208/|title=Заморозь мороженное. Научное знание должно быть аппетитным|author=Anastasia Orlova|date=2014-02-14|publisher=Poisk News|accessdate=2016-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302013757/http://www.poisknews.ru/theme/publications/9208/|archive-date=2016-03-02|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lookatme.ru/mag/blogs/editors/199843-geek-picnic|title=Лаборатория беспилотников Look At Me и еще 10 событий первого московского Geek Picnic| author = Daria Abramova|date=2014-01-24|publisher=Look At Me|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rusbase.com/news/skhodka-gikov/|title=Geek Picnic 2014: сходка гиканутых| author = Kristina Manzhula |date=2014-01-28|publisher=Rusbase.com|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> The event had 30000 visitors.
Distinctive features of the event
Scale
In the large Playground a real riot of science, technology and art is happening.
* Atmosphere
The sensation of a festive atmosphere does not leave a participant even for a minute. Absolutely everyone, great and small, whether he is a programmer, or a novice researcher, a free artist or a head of a family feels here as a part of one whole, interesting, progressive and constantly surprising world. Everything that is happening around is impressive, it inspires new ideas and initiates good mood for a long time. A constant stream of information exchange, knowledge and experience, is soaring in the air. It helps people to realize themselves in interesting activities and to try something that could only be a dream before: robots’ construction, 3D printing of items, flying robots’ management, and also communication with the inventors of these robots, great scholars and media personalities.
* Format
Three educational tent in which lectures from experts in the field of technology, art and science, are held. Side by side with the picnic area, scattered throughout unique participatory events, performances in the open air, an exhibition of contemporary art and informative educational programs. Anyone can get acquainted with the latest novelties of the world here and, a few meters near, to be charged up by nutritious food, or play ping-pong.


The summer Geek Picnic was held at [[Yelagin Island]], Saint-Petersburg, in August. The event schedule included over 60 lectures and 30 masterclasses and workshops, drone and robot operation competitions, programming contest. Festival featured DIY-zones, robotics and 3D printing exhibition<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sobaka.ru/photo/photo/26370|title=Geek Picnic на Елагином острове. День 1 — 9 августа|author=Maria Guseva|date=2014-08-09|publisher=Sobaka.Ru Magazine|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rg.ru/2014/08/11/reg-szfo/festival-anons.html|title=На GEEK PICNIC в Петербург приехали имперские штурмовики|author=Ilya Gorbunov|date=2014-08-11|publisher=[[Rossiyskaya Gazeta]]|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> as well as 3D printed fashion show by Larisa Katz, Pia Hinze and Joshua Harker<ref>{{cite news|url=http://3dprint.com/13120/3d-print-fashion-show/|title='3D Print Fashion' – Russian Runway Show Features Some of the World's Top 3D Printed Fashion |author=Whitney Hipolite|date=2014-08-27|publisher=3DPrint.com|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> and had a total of 18000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sobaka.ru/photo/photo/26374|title=Geek Picnic на Елагином острове. День 2 — 10 августа|author=Maria Guseva|date=2014-08-10|publisher=Sobaka.Ru Magazine|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://education-events.ru/2014/08/15/geek-picnic-summer-saint-petersburg-2014/|title=Петербургский Geek Picnic: итоги фестиваля в области технологий, науки и искусства|date=2014-08-15|publisher=Education-events.ru|accessdate=2016-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308193820/http://education-events.ru/2014/08/15/geek-picnic-summer-saint-petersburg-2014/|archive-date=2016-03-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Geek Picnic 2011 ==
* '''When''': August 6, 2011
* '''Where''': New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Number of visitors: more than 5,000 people


=== About the event ===
=== 2015 ===
That year, both Moscow and Saint Petersburg festivals took place in summer. The Geek Picnic in Moscow was held in [[:ru:Красная Пресня (парк)|Krasnaya Presnya]] park and featured 6 theme zones named 'Technology', 'Science', 'Art', 'Picnic', 'Expo' and 'Market'.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.colta.ru/news/6690 |title= Москва и Петербург увидят последние достижения киборгизации |date=2015-04-18 | publisher= Colta.ru | accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> A huge convention of people with bionic implants and prosthetics was the core event of the festival. Bebionic pioneer [Nigel Ackland], Actress [Angel Giuffria],'[[cyborg]]' activist [[Neil Harbisson]], Jens Naumann whose vision is partially restored by brain implant, drummer [[Jason Barnes (drummer)|Jason Barnes]] with robotic arm, [[Christian Ristow]] with large-scale robotic arm 'The Hand of Man,' and model and singer [[Viktoria Modesta]], were among the participants.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.m24.ru/articles/68978 |title=В рамках Geek Picnic пройдет съезд людей с бионическими протезами | date=2015-03-18|publisher=Moscow 24|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> The musicians who played on the 3D-printed instruments also performed on the Picnic. 2015 Moscow Geek Picnic schedule also included music show performed on 3D printed instruments, fireworks, drone championship, lectures by [[Anatoly Wasserman]], space test pilot [[Sergey Ryazansky]] and painter [[Boryana Rossa]], and a communication session with [[Gennady Padalka]] and [[Mikhail Kornienko]] from aboard the [[International Space Station|ISS]]. The festival in Moscow had 22000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.gctc.ru/print.php?id=3051|title=Космонавты приняли участие в фестивале современных технологий, науки и искусства "GEEK PICNIC"|date=2014-06-16|publisher=Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center|accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.the-village.ru/village/city/parks-news/216085-geek-picnic |title= В парке "Красная Пресня" пройдёт фестиваль Geek Picnic |author= Yulia Ruzmanova |date=2015-06-08 | publisher=The Village | accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.nkj.ru/prtnews/26528/ |title= Пикник для гиков: крупнейший европейский фестиваль науки, технологий и искусства прошел в Москве |date=2015-06-16 | publisher= [[Nauka i Zhizn]] | accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref>
Yury Lifshits and Ilya Bolkhovskiy were the first organizers of Geek Picnic.
The staff of [[Vkontakte]], [[Yandex]], [[Iota]], [[LookAtMe]], [[Veeam Software]] could be found tamong the participants, as well as the representatives of the leading investment funds and incubators: Runa Capital, ABRT, Ingria, etc.[2]<ref>http://geek-picnic.ru/report.html</ref> «This event met all the expectations. And to be honest - I would have liked everything that could happen there! Just because it exists in principle. It exists in St. Pete, where the very essence and dynamics of the city requires such events, people like those, similar projects. Encouraged by the number of investigators 1,500 and the scale of the designated picnic - New Holland stretches widely and opens its grounds for sport activities and open-air games.»


The Saint Petersburg 2015 Geek Picnic was held at Yelagin Island on June, 20th and 21st and had an event schedule similar to earlier Moscow festival. The visitors were greeted by Ristow's 6-ton robotic arm.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.baltinfo.ru/2015/06/21/Na-festivale-tekhnologii--GEEK-PICNIC-v-TcPKiO-peterburzhtcev-poprivetstvovala-gigantskaya-robotizirovannaya-ruka-501573 |title= На фестивале технологий GEEK PICNIC в ЦПКиО петербуржцев поприветствовала гигантская роботизированная рука |date=2015-06-21 | publisher= BaltInfo.ru | accessdate=2016-03-27}}</ref> The educational part of festival featured talks by the head of the [[Pushkin Museum]] [[:ru:Лошак, Марина Девовна|Marina Loshak]], artistic director of the [[Bolshoi Drama Theater]] [[Andrey Moguchy]], musician [[:ru:Нестеров, Олег Анатольевич|Oleg Nesterov]], ‘Mediaculture’ laboratory head Andrey Svibovich and other science and art workers joined by ‘cyborgs’ Nicolas Huchet and Viktoria Modesta. Pecha Kucha took place during the events. The festival had approximately 25000 visitors.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://elaginpark.org/events/past/521-geek-picnic-festival-tekhnologij-nauki-i-iskusstva-2014-g |title= GEEK PICNIC-фестиваль технологий, науки и искусства |publisher= Yelagin Park |accessdate= 2016-03-27 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160224070333/http://elaginpark.org/events/past/521-geek-picnic-festival-tekhnologij-nauki-i-iskusstva-2014-g |archive-date= 2016-02-24 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
== Geek Picnic 2012 ==
* '''When''': August 3, 2012
* '''Where''': New Holland island
Number of visitors: more than 7000 people


=== About the event ===
=== 2016 ===
[[File:Джейми Хайнеман на Geek Picnic 2016 SPb.jpg|thumb|[[Jamie Hyneman]] at the Geek Picnic in St. Petersburg, 2016]]
The main group of Geek Picnic 2012 visitors consisted of programmers and IT-specialists, representatives of creative class, young families.
The first [[Israel]]i Geek Picnic, attended by more than 35 thousand people, took place in the [[Sacher Park]] in the center of [[Jerusalem]] on April 25–27. There were about 150 exhibition stands, of which about 75% were represented by Israeli teams.<ref name=israel2016>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/First-ever-Geek-PicNic-transforms-Jerusalem-park-into-futuristic-wonderland-452438|title=first-ever 'Geek Picnic' transforms Jerusalem park into futuristic wonderland |author= Daniel K. Eisenbud |date=2016-04-27|publisher=The Jerusalem Post|accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref>
The program of Geek Picnic contained three parts:
* [[IT]]
* Educational part
* Entertainment part<ref>[http://sobaka.ru/news/lifestyle/12653 Geek Picnic<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом -->]</ref>


The Moscow festival was held on June 18–19 in the [[Kolomenskoye]] Museum, in St. Petersburg – on June 25–26 on Elagin Island. [[Jamie Hyneman]], the ''[[MythBusters]]'' presenter, became the headliner of Russian festivals. More than 40 people gave lectures, including scientific journalist [[:ru:Казанцева, Ася|Asya Kazantseva]], sculptor [[Andrey Bartenev]], political analyst [[Anatoly Vasserman]], space exploration popularizer Vitaly Egorov, space pilot and hero of the Russian Federation [[Anton Shkaplerov]] and others. Traditionally the festival was divided into zones "Science", "Technology", "Art" and "Picnic". [[ITMO University]] had its own section at the Petersburg festival, the [[MAMI Moscow State Technical University|Polytechnic University]] – at the Moscow festival. There was a Mars rover presented by [[St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications]] and a five-meter high robot "Dragon", created in [[Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry]].<ref name=posterspb2016>{{Cite web|url=http://posterspb.ru/news/view/485-samye-populyarnye-gadzhety-i-stantsii-na-geek-picnic-2016-v-sankt-peterburge|title=Самые популярные гаджеты и станции на Geek Picnic 2016 в Санкт-Петербурге |author=Ольга Пантелеева|publisher= Интернет журнал о новых технологиях — PosterSPB|accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref name=vokrugtv2016>{{Cite web|url= http://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/partners_53036/ |title= 10 вещей, которые стоит увидеть, послушать, собрать и попробовать на Geek Picnic 2016 |date = 2016-06-01|publisher= VokrugTV |accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref><ref name=cinemarticle2016>{{Cite web |url=http://cinemarticle.com/geek-picnic-2016/ |title=Geek Picnic 2016 в Москве: как это было |author=Катерина Высоцких |date=2016-06-23 |publisher=Cinemarticle |accessdate=2017-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170723133459/http://cinemarticle.com/geek-picnic-2016/ |archive-date=2017-07-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=tass2016>{{Cite web|url= http://tass.ru/obschestvo/340647|title=В Санкт-Петербурге завершился научно-популярный фестиваль Geek Picnic 2016 |date = 2017-06-27 |publisher= ТАСС|accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref>
==== IT ====
* Exhibition of [[robotics]]
* A special tent with lectures and master classes from specialists from various Russian IT companies
* Informal fair of vacancies for programmers
* Start-up session on popular technological projects
* Speed dating for programmers


In 2016 Geek Picnic beat the record for attendance: 29,000 people visited the St. Petersburg festival, the Moscow event attracted 27,000 spectators.<ref name=tass2016 />
==== Educational part ====


=== 2017 ===
Lectures in the format of TED organized together with Tedx Neva River «Hello, World!». Among speakers there were Gaidar Magdanurov, Hrachik Adzhamyan, Alexey Voinov, Philip Katz, Kirill Shihan and Yury Lifshits.
In 2017, Moscow's Geek Picnic is scheduled for June 17–18 and will be held on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum. The festival in St. Petersburg will be held on June 24–25, in Pulkovo Park in the south of the city. The main theme of the festivals in 2017, co-organized by [[Kaspersky Lab]], is "mind games". Among more than 20 invited researchers are [[:ru:Панчин, Александр Юрьевич|Alexander Panchin]], Petr Levich, Ilya Zakharov, Daniel Laman and Vasily Klyucharev. The key speaker of the St. Petersburg festival is the science popularizer [[Richard Dawkins]], the astrophysicist [[Lawrence M. Krauss|Lawrence Krauss]] will be the main guest at the Moscow festival.<ref name="village2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.the-village.ru/village/city/weekend-blog/264126-geek-picnic |title=Фестиваль Geek Picnic объявил программу |author=Роман Чернявский|date=2017-04-25 |publisher=The Village|accessdate=2017-05-12}}</ref>
Open stage for speeches on the modern technological life of St. Petersburg (presentation laboratories, IT projects, educational programs, co-working spaces, publications)
Lecture hall Windarium from Windows


==References==
==== Entertainment part ====
{{reflist|2}}
A large picnic from the organizers
New Holland exhibitions
Open library
Jumpers
Juggling school
Game zone with game consoles
Children Playground
Playground with board games
Geek-goods market
Activities (ping-pong, trampoline, badminton, basketball)
Segway
Mechanical sculptures by Alexander Ghetoi
Kicker and Golf
Competitions and prizes (*5)


==External links==
== Geek Picnic 2013 ==
{{commons category}}

* {{Official website|http://geek-picnic.me }}
* '''When''': 3-4 August,2013
* '''Where''': St. Petersburg, Elagin island
* '''Number of visitors''': Over 2 days, the festival gathered more than 15 000 visitors, making it the largest and, indeed, record in Europe.[6]

=== About the event ===

Unbelievable but true - after two years of existence of this special-purpose, at first glance, event, it was more successful than many summer music and gastronomic festivals. Geek Picnic not only showed that St. Petersburg citizens and guests from other cities try to keep up with the modern time and seek new knowledge in the field of technology, science and art, but also made a firm bid to become a new business card of St. Petersburg along with the White Nights Festival, the International Economic Forum and the Hermitage.
During the days of Geek Picnic Elagin island became a real Mecca for the fans of modern technologies, science and art. Guests of the event were able to participate in battles between robots and competition of quadrocopters, to admire natural meteorites, to attend master classes and lectures of world-renowned scientists.
The forum was divided into 5 thematic areas[7]:

* [[Technology]]
* [[Science]]
* [[Art]]
* [[EXPO]]
* [[Picnic]]

=== Technology Zone ===
Here you can not only get acquainted with the latest achievements, but also to communicate with inventors, cybernetics professionals and scientists. The Technology Zone, has become one of the most popular sites of Geek Picnic and included:
Lecture hall (robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and other):
: '''Program '''
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! Speaker !! Lecture subject
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|[[File:AndreyRyabykh.jpg|mini|left|200x100px|upright|Andrey Ryabykh]]'''Andrey Ryabykh''' <br /> (Expert in the field of creation and monetization of Internet-projects) || «Top 10 Technologies that will Change the World»
|-
| [[File:44314744volkov.jpg|mini|left|200x100px|upright|Volkov Alexander]]'''[[Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov|Volkov Alexander]]''' <br /> (Cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the Legion of honor, Legend of the Russian cosmonautics, worked on the orbital scientific station “Mir”) || «Life of Astronauts on the ISS»
|-
| [[File:Sergey Volkov110608095329.JPG|mini|left|200x100px|upright|Sergey Volkov]]'''[[Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov|Sergey Volkov]]''' (Cosmonaut, hero of the Russian Federation) || «Prospects for the Development of Space Science and On-orbit Scientific Projects Realized by Astronauts»
|-
|[[File:Zhukov.jpg|mini|left|200x100px|Zhukov]]'''Sergey Zhukov''' <br /> (Executive Director of the «SKOLKOVO» Cluster of Space Technologies and Telecommunications, President of the Moscow Space Club)|| «Technological Trends in Cosmonautics»
|-
| [[File:A9d3928f3b33ace.jpg|mini|left|200x100px|Zhukov]]'''Dmitry Satin''' <br />(Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation) || «Usability at the Intersection of Technology, Design and Psychology. How to make Complicated Mechanisms Understandable for the End-user»
|-
| [[File:Mikhail AverbachMikhail Averbach.jpg|mini|left|200x100px|Zhukov]]'''Mikhail Averbach''' <br /> (Managing partner of the startup accelerator iDealMachine, entrepreneur) || «On Investments in Russia and in Technological Startups»
|-
| '''Artem Filippovskiy''' || «The Internet of Things & Machine-to-machine. Everything about М2М»
|-
| '''Andrey Medvedev'''|| «Office in Clouds - @Secretary,FMC, Cloud Technology»
|-
| '''Tatiana Gavrilova''' <br /> (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor. Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence) ||«Artificial Intelligence. Myth or Reality»
|-
| '''Anton Steputin'''|| «Principles of Operation of Mobile Networks»
|-
| '''Nigel Ackland'''<br /> (One of the first people with a bionic limb)|| «Ordinary… Extraordinary, Life With A Bionic Arm»
|-
| '''Sergey Krichevsky'''<br /> (Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Candidate of Technical Sciences, test cosmonaut, member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named in honor of Tsiolkovsky)|| «Space Future of Man and Humanity: Problems and Prospects»
|-
| '''[[Andrey Terekhov]]'''<br /> (Geneticist, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, St. Petersburg State University)||«Stories about the Technologies of Programming»
|-
| '''Oleg Shmakov'''<br /> (Head of the Department of Special Machinery Research Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics)||«Projects of SMRI RTC and the Prospects of Development of Robotics in Russia"»

|}
:
* A large exhibition of the latest developments in the field of robotics, robot assistants, 3D printers, robots-dancers, robots-miners, telepresence-robots. Special attention should be paid to the presentation of non-contact sensor display, which projection of a picture is the most high-quality image in the world today.
* Championship of Russia among quadrocopters (50 robots from different countries, this championship has caused universal admiration. Flying robots were to perform the whole complex of tasks: fly through hoops, burst a balloon and solemnly land in a limited site. The Commentator of the Championship became Courage Bambey, the legendary voice of «the Big Bang Theory».
* An open laboratory for scientific-technical creativity - Fab Lab
* Conference on mobile applications
* Conference on systems for online payments
* Start-up session
* Hackaton

=== Science Zone ===
* Lecture hall with leading Russian and Western scientists (space, bioinformatics, genetics, intelligence, physics)
:: '''Program'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Speaker !! Lecture
|-
| '''George Bazikin'''<br />(Candidate of Biological Sciences, PhD, Princeton University, Manager of the department of Molecular Evolution IITP RAS) || «How to Know the Name by a genome, Using Only the Internet»
|-
| '''Dmitry Petrov'''<br />(Polyglot, simultaneous interpreter, lecturer, broadcaster-master of the reality show «Polyglot» on the TV channel «Kultura») || «The Magic of the Word: Language as a Phenomenon; the Evolution of Languages
in the Modern World; the Author's Method of Learning Languages»
|-
| '''Sergey Popov'''<br /> (Russian scientist-astrophysicist and popularizer of science, Doctor of Physico-mathematical Sciences, leading researcher of the State Astronomical Institute named in honor of P. K. Sternberg)|| «10 Astrophysical Discoveries that Will Amaze the World»
|-
| '''Victor Petrenko'''<br /> (Psychologist, Professor, corresponding member of RAS, head of the Laboratory of Psychology of Communication and Psychosemantics at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University) || "The Psychosemantics of Consciousness and Unconscious (in the Context of the Movement "Global Future 2045)»
|-
| '''Anatoly Vasserman'''<br /> (Engineer, journalist, political consultant, a frequent winner of intellectual game shows) || «Development of Technologies as a Macroeconomic Factor" (Political scientist, chief Scholar in Russia) ||
|-
| '''Alexey Semikhatov'''<br /> (Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, popularizer of science, leading researcher at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Physical Institute named after P.N. Lebedev RAS (FIAS)) ||«The large Hadron Collider and the Picture of the World»
|-
| '''Oleg Tikhodeev'''<br /> (Geneticist, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, St. Petersburg State University) || «Alternative Forms of Life Around Us»
|-
| '''Ekaterina Vinogradova''' <br /> (Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of the Higher Nervous Activity and Psychophysiology)|| «The Differences between Man and Woman»
|}
* Museum of interactive science, a unique exhibition on Chelyabinsk meteorite

• Museum of interactive science, a unique exhibition on Chelyabinsk meteorite
=== Art Zone ===
In this area you can find out all about the contemporary art, its place in the world and the role an artist in the new society, and also:
* Visit lecture hall
Speaker Lecture
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Speaker!! Lecture
|-
| '''[[Alexander Sokurov]]''' <br />(Film Director and a scenarist, an honored art worker of the Russian Federation, people's artist of Russia, a winner of the Golden Lion, the 68-th Venice film festival) || "РThe Role of an Artist in the Contemporary Art, where to Find Yourself between Technology and Pure Creativity
|-
|'''Paul Markaitis''' (Head of Exhibition Projects of the Museum Erarta) <br /> || «Actual Art Practices»
|-
|'''Dmitry Bulatov'''<br />(Russian leading expert in the field of art science, Curator of the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Center for Contemporary art, artist) || «Art and Science as an Estimated Possible»
|-
| '''Yury Piotrovsky''' <br /> (Senior Researcher at the Hermitage, Deputy Head of the Department of Archeology of the Eastern Europe and Siberia)|| «Archaeology and Contemporary Art»
|-
| '''Lev Lurie'''<br /> (Historian, Petersburg regional ethnographer, journalist, Candidate of Historical Sciences) ||«How else can you Sell Petersburg»
|-
| '''Oleg Goncharov'''<br /> (Director of the Centre for Territorial Initiatives "Archopolis", Director of «Nikola-Lenivets», urbanist)|| «New Leaders of Territorial Development»
|-
| '''Denis Kotov''' <br /> (General Director of the bookshops chain «Bookvoed»)|| «Paper Books in the World of Modern Technologies»
|}
* to take part in installations
* to visit an exhibition of contemporary art
* to participate in master classes
* to watch tech-art exhibits
EXPO Zone
This area consisted of the most interesting exhibitions of the goods of the future:
* web-design
* electronics
* history of computers
* companies providing IT services
* digital solutions for business
* geek witted Souvenirs
Picnic Zone
The relaxation area includes:
* spacious food court,
* Board-games playground spaces
* game-area for computer games
* several outdoor exhibitions.
Also here it was possible to assemble an airplane, to participate in a robots’ battle, to listen to the best electronic music from St. Petersburg and much more.
The distinctive feature of the picnic was an incredibly large for mass events number of children. The largest number of kids gathered around fighting robots. The place of the battle of soulless machines, shooting each other with plastic bullets, was fenced by plexiglass. This attraction has existed in St. Petersburg for several years. The organizers claim that the technologies used in the creation of combat vehicles, if are not to run ahead of the whole planet, at least are not to lag behind.

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Geek Picnic
GEEK PICNIC
GenreScience and technology festival
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)St. Petersburg, Moscow, Jerusalem
Years active2011 - present
Inaugurated2011
FounderExponenta.me
Websitehttp://geek-picnic.me

Geek Picnic is the largest European open air festival dedicated to popular science, modern technology, science and art.[1][2]

The first festival was held in St. Petersburg in 2011. Since 2014, Geek Picnic has been held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2016, the first Geek Picnic was held in Israel.[3]

Festivals

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Quadcopters show, 2013
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Aleksandr Volkov speaking at a festival event, 2013

2011

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The first Geek Picnic took place, at the New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg, on August 6, 2011. It presented several scientific shows, including 3D printing and robotics, as well as indoor and outdoor activities like modern game consoles, monocycles, jumping stilts, gaming zone and sports ground.[4] The festival attracted more than 1500 visitors.

2012

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The second Geek Picnic was held at the same location on August, 3rd. It featured a wide variety of events including robot exhibition, a number of lectures in the format of TEDx and masterclasses by recognized experts from Russian IT companies (Gaidar Magdanurov, Grachik Adzhamian, Alexey Voinov, Filipp Katz, Kirill Shichanov and Yury Lifshits), a job fair for programmers and a dedicated Windarium Windows education site. The recreational zone offered open library, gaming space, sports and a picnic. Around 7000 people have visited the event.[5]

2013

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In 2013, Geek Picnic was a two-day festival held at Yelagin Island. The territory was divided into 4 zones dedicated to technology, science, art and picnic. The festival featured a display of most recent inventions in robotics and 3d printing, interactive science museum, meteorite exhibition[6] and Fab lab.[2] Event schedule included lectures by cosmonaut Alexander Volkov, historian Lev Lurie, a known polyglot, language teacher and television presenter Dmitry Petrov, engineer Anatoly Wasserman, and Nigel Ackland, known to be the world’s first person to receive a bionic prosthetic arm, and numerous entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.[1] The Russian quadcopter racing championship took place during the festival. Recreational areas included food court, playground and open-air exhibitions.[7][8][9][10] Visitor count exceeded 15000 through 2 days.[5]

2014

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A girl testing Oculus Rift headset at Geek Picnic in Moscow, 2014

The winter session of 2014 Geek Picnic took place in VDNKh, Moscow, on January 25–26. Theme zones dedicated to technology, science and art, entertainment, lectorium and a playground for children were set up in a 15 thousand square meters pavilion.[11] A number of speakers including Anatoly Wasserman and futurologist Dmitry Gluchovskiy gave lectures, and the founder of the Venus project Jacque Fresco held a skype conference call. The festival featured musical performance by Alexander Robotnick and the Desert Planet band. The displays included the world’s biggest Tesla coil, 3D bioprinter prototype, quadcopter show, sculptures of Transformers characters and a robot show featuring Exoatlet hauler and InMoove android.[12][13][14] The event had 30000 visitors.

The summer Geek Picnic was held at Yelagin Island, Saint-Petersburg, in August. The event schedule included over 60 lectures and 30 masterclasses and workshops, drone and robot operation competitions, programming contest. Festival featured DIY-zones, robotics and 3D printing exhibition[15][16] as well as 3D printed fashion show by Larisa Katz, Pia Hinze and Joshua Harker[17] and had a total of 18000 visitors.[18][19]

2015

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That year, both Moscow and Saint Petersburg festivals took place in summer. The Geek Picnic in Moscow was held in Krasnaya Presnya park and featured 6 theme zones named 'Technology', 'Science', 'Art', 'Picnic', 'Expo' and 'Market'.[20] A huge convention of people with bionic implants and prosthetics was the core event of the festival. Bebionic pioneer [Nigel Ackland], Actress [Angel Giuffria],'cyborg' activist Neil Harbisson, Jens Naumann whose vision is partially restored by brain implant, drummer Jason Barnes with robotic arm, Christian Ristow with large-scale robotic arm 'The Hand of Man,' and model and singer Viktoria Modesta, were among the participants.[21] The musicians who played on the 3D-printed instruments also performed on the Picnic. 2015 Moscow Geek Picnic schedule also included music show performed on 3D printed instruments, fireworks, drone championship, lectures by Anatoly Wasserman, space test pilot Sergey Ryazansky and painter Boryana Rossa, and a communication session with Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko from aboard the ISS. The festival in Moscow had 22000 visitors.[22][23][24]

The Saint Petersburg 2015 Geek Picnic was held at Yelagin Island on June, 20th and 21st and had an event schedule similar to earlier Moscow festival. The visitors were greeted by Ristow's 6-ton robotic arm.[25] The educational part of festival featured talks by the head of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak, artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater Andrey Moguchy, musician Oleg Nesterov, ‘Mediaculture’ laboratory head Andrey Svibovich and other science and art workers joined by ‘cyborgs’ Nicolas Huchet and Viktoria Modesta. Pecha Kucha took place during the events. The festival had approximately 25000 visitors.[26]

2016

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Jamie Hyneman at the Geek Picnic in St. Petersburg, 2016

The first Israeli Geek Picnic, attended by more than 35 thousand people, took place in the Sacher Park in the center of Jerusalem on April 25–27. There were about 150 exhibition stands, of which about 75% were represented by Israeli teams.[3]

The Moscow festival was held on June 18–19 in the Kolomenskoye Museum, in St. Petersburg – on June 25–26 on Elagin Island. Jamie Hyneman, the MythBusters presenter, became the headliner of Russian festivals. More than 40 people gave lectures, including scientific journalist Asya Kazantseva, sculptor Andrey Bartenev, political analyst Anatoly Vasserman, space exploration popularizer Vitaly Egorov, space pilot and hero of the Russian Federation Anton Shkaplerov and others. Traditionally the festival was divided into zones "Science", "Technology", "Art" and "Picnic". ITMO University had its own section at the Petersburg festival, the Polytechnic University – at the Moscow festival. There was a Mars rover presented by St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications and a five-meter high robot "Dragon", created in Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry.[27][28][29][30]

In 2016 Geek Picnic beat the record for attendance: 29,000 people visited the St. Petersburg festival, the Moscow event attracted 27,000 spectators.[30]

2017

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In 2017, Moscow's Geek Picnic is scheduled for June 17–18 and will be held on the territory of the Kolomenskoye Museum. The festival in St. Petersburg will be held on June 24–25, in Pulkovo Park in the south of the city. The main theme of the festivals in 2017, co-organized by Kaspersky Lab, is "mind games". Among more than 20 invited researchers are Alexander Panchin, Petr Levich, Ilya Zakharov, Daniel Laman and Vasily Klyucharev. The key speaker of the St. Petersburg festival is the science popularizer Richard Dawkins, the astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss will be the main guest at the Moscow festival.[31]

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